Lead Developer Jobs in Birmingham

Lead Developer
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Lead Developer salary in Birmingham is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 96 118
Rank change year-on-year -3 +22 +10
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Developer 10 51 24
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.68% 1.87% 1.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.73% 1.98% 1.29%
Number of salaries quoted 9 51 23
10th Percentile - £47,000 £46,000
25th Percentile £47,000 £52,539 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £71,250 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £100,000 £77,850
West Midlands median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +11.63%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Birmingham. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Birmingham with a recognized job title 1,378 2,571 1,859
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.38% 94.31% 93.51%
Number of salaries quoted 795 2,098 1,426
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,991 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,800 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.27% - -
75th Percentile £68,750 £69,914 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £84,964 £82,500
West Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

Lead Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings that featured Lead Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Lead Developer in Birmingham

Lead Developer
Salary Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead Developer in Birmingham.

Salary trend for Lead Developer in Birmingham

Lead Developer
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Developer in Birmingham over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead Developer in Birmingham

Lead Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham

For the 6 months to 5 May 2025, Lead Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Birmingham region featuring Lead Developer in the job title.

1 6 (60.00%) Mentoring
2 5 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 5 (50.00%) Games
3 4 (40.00%) QA
3 4 (40.00%) SOLID
3 4 (40.00%) Line Management
3 4 (40.00%) Unit Testing
3 4 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
3 4 (40.00%) Agile
3 4 (40.00%) TDD
3 4 (40.00%) PHP
3 4 (40.00%) E-Commerce
4 2 (20.00%) Azure
4 2 (20.00%) AWS
5 1 (10.00%) Kafka
5 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
5 1 (10.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (10.00%) Oracle Database
5 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
5 1 (10.00%) Docker
5 1 (10.00%) Microservices
5 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
5 1 (10.00%) React
5 1 (10.00%) Spring Boot
5 1 (10.00%) SDLC
5 1 (10.00%) Vue
5 1 (10.00%) Power BI
5 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (10.00%) C#
5 1 (10.00%) Java

Lead Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) AWS
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (10.00%) Power BI
1 1 (10.00%) Power Query
General
1 5 (50.00%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) .NET
1 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (10.00%) Kafka
1 1 (10.00%) React
1 1 (10.00%) Spring
1 1 (10.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (10.00%) Vue
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Mentoring
2 5 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 4 (40.00%) Agile
3 4 (40.00%) E-Commerce
3 4 (40.00%) Line Management
3 4 (40.00%) SOLID
3 4 (40.00%) TDD
3 4 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
3 4 (40.00%) Unit Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (10.00%) Microservices
4 1 (10.00%) Project Planning
4 1 (10.00%) SDLC
4 1 (10.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) PHP
2 1 (10.00%) C#
2 1 (10.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (10.00%) Java
2 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (10.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (10.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Databricks
1 1 (10.00%) Google
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle